US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

sub-Curly stooges

Schiff can be Moe-like, tho

I guess Bannon's still alive

sort of

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Refashioning a corpse into a ventriloquist's dummy for a cable news show is in such bad taste, no matter the decedent in question.

man the cryptkeeper really let himself go

sam the eagle looking good tho!

"Bannon doesn't drink" is still among the most amazingly transparent lies of the Trump admin

fascist meat loaf performing fat out of hell

tonight's Nazi rally is gonna incredibly lit and I predict that Trump will order his fans to murder journalists

doing all the classics

“Y’know, we don’t do like other countries, other countries stand there with machine guns ready to fire. We can’t do that, and I wouldn’t wanna do that. It’s a very effective way of doing it, and I wouldn’t wanna do it, we can’t do it.”

btw did i say how effective it would be if we did do that ?

For the millionth time, sorry, but just consider: what if Obama or any other democratic president ever said that?

trouble in paradise

!! TRUMP: “I have overridden my people, we’re funding the special Olympics”

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) March 28, 2019

DeVos statement on President Trump supporting Special Olympics: "I am pleased and grateful the president and I see eye to eye on this issue, and that he has decided to fund our Special Olympics grant. This is funding I have fought for behind the scenes the last several years."

— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) March 28, 2019

oceania has always been at war with eastasia

what the fuck is even going on anymore

have you guys seen the pictures from el paso?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2rqjdNWoAAN6Ly.jpg:large

article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/customs-and-border-patrol-head-says-breaking-point-has-arrived-at-texas-border/

how is that not a still from children of men

refugee concentration camps were a thing in Children Of Men bcz Cuaron was bothered by IRL refugee concentration camps

You see those people would all be stopped if we only had a wall . after traveling 1000s of miles though all kinds of hardships a wall would just be too much and they would turn around

The point of the wall is that you wouldn't have to see their plight.

refugee concentration camps were a thing in Children Of Men bcz Cuaron was bothered by IRL refugee concentration camps

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I guess Bannon's still alive

sort of

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Holy Shit, it's Liverace!

We Don't Need No Fascist Meat Loaf

the deputy director of communications for trump's 2020 campaign weighs in with some measured words of wisdom

I'm sure Democrats who see abortion as the cure for Down syndrome and other disabilities are sincerely concerned about kids having the chance to be in the Special Olympics

— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) March 28, 2019

NPR was breathlessly echoing the feds' "crisis at the border" line this morning

Cool that Trump and DeVos see eye to eye. Too bad neither can actually re-fund the Special Olympics at this point.

guys things are rly bad

It’s been just four days since the president learned that Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion, but Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer, is no longer in the mood to celebrate. He’s thrilled about the outcome, of course, as is his client. Trump told the former New York mayor that “he’s happier than he thought he would be.” But Giuliani, sipping a Diet Coke on Wednesday morning at the Trump Hotel, said it’s time to focus on the next mission: Find out who started all this—and why.

“We’re now trying to prove who did it,” Giuliani said. “The premise is, somebody had to have started the ‘He colluded with the Russians’” narrative. (Never mind that Trump’s posture toward the Kremlin has long been strange.) Asked whether the president himself wants an investigation to examine this question, Giuliani said, “Goddamn right he [does]. This is not ‘Oh, gee, it’s over, let’s forget about it.’”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/trump-wants-campaign-mueller-report-2020/585967/

this reminds me of the around year 4 of #benghazi, when the obama administration launched an effort to find out who started the "#benghazi" narrative. but then about 15 minutes later they were just like "oh yeah, fox news and breitbart and daily caller"

and actually, i'm already slapping myself silly about that post because it implies equivalence between #benghazi and the mueller investigation

*trump legal team investigates to get to the bottom of things*

"Wow it turns out we actually did crimes. our bad"

Reminds me of OJ's hunt for the real killer

if i colluded

I have a better education than them
I'm smarter than them
I went to the best schools
they didn't

Much more beautiful house
much more beautiful apartment
Much more beautiful everything
And I'm president
and they're not

hero

Look in the background during Interior Secretary Nominee David Bernhardt's opening statement.

Watch LIVE on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/i3oegv9okf pic.twitter.com/UiiaVfV8h2

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 28, 2019

We’re now trying to prove who did it,” Giuliani

It’s worth keeping an eye on the Ukrainian election this weekend. There was always a counter-narrative that the Clinton campaign was ‘colluding’ with the Ukrainian secret service but the strong post-election relationship with Poroshenko meant it was always unlikely Trump would go after a deferential ally. If Poroshenko gets voted out (which is probably 50/50) and you have another leader looking to suck up to him, and trash the previous government, that might change. It would be risky, as it would raise questions about why Ukraine was so keen to keep Trump out, but I wouldn’t bet money that he is smart enough to let it go.

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Mueller killed politics

As a fellow Learned League member, I enjoyed this:

it appears that mick mulvaney is getting his ass kicked in his private trivia league https://t.co/mVsewzRmTv

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) March 29, 2019

what the

Rep. McAuliffe introduces the "Jussie Act" to strip tax credits from film productions that employ any person been who has participated in a deferred prosecution program for disorderly conduct or for falsifying a police report of a hate crime. #twill https://t.co/9YWPm0uMnX

— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) March 29, 2019

finally the legislation america desperately needs

we all need relief from this longstanding scourge

Bespoke law is the new market inefficiency

If Morton Downey Jr. were still alive he'd be pissed

cool to make a law that will literally never apply to anyone

good to know which kind of meddling government red tape is a-ok

Ahhhh, okay, so this is how we wind up with those 'Did you know it's illegal to wear red shorts on a Sunday in Nantucket?!' laws.

Federal tax law is rife with provisions carefully crafted so as to apply only to a single entity, either a person or a corporation, without specifying it by name. There must be hundreds of these, if not thousands. This is one of the dirty secrets of Congress.

oh, good afternoon!

Film Production Tax Credits are such an interesting hobby horse for GOP grandstanding. After the Weinstein story broke, this Texas House rep tried to completely repeal the already-dwindling ones here to "discourage Hollywood predators coming to our state."

irrational exuberance

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow called on the Federal Reserve to “immediately” cut interest rates by a half percentage point https://t.co/fXMDUnjVJ7

— Bloomberg (@business) March 29, 2019

whatever he says, do this opposite: https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/06/housing-bears-are-wrong-again-larry-kudlow/